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IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to just one IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Create report directly from dataset

Need the ability to create reports directly from a dataset without having to define the dataset within a data module.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Two www-Authenticate HTTP headers instead of one comma separated header

In Mixed Security Mode (IntegratedSecurityMode3), TM1 sends this WWW-Authenticate header: WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate, Basic realm="TM1" According to RFC 9110 Section 11.6.1-6 , it is valid to specify multiple methods in one WWW-Authenticate heade...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Read Only User Group/Role should not allow for use of the export feature

Read only users at CTC of Match360 should only be able to explore and read what exists in Match360, and given the sensitivity of the data, they should never be allowed to export any of the data to a local computer. This is a large risk to the firm...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Projects Id needs to be deleted from catalog assets when the project is removed.

Project name is not captured in the connections table whereas project ID is available. If the project name is deleted, then related project id also should be removed from the Catalog assets.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

make FS/Db2 generate some good remote execution plans against big Mongo collections

Problem statement/pain points - refer to what elaborated in TS012101437 for details *for multi-way joins (>2), FS/Db2 currently always generate bad remote SQL execution plans involving full scan of some large collections w/ no filters pushed do...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Future consideration